# 労働基準法施行規則 / Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions)

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- Law: 労働基準法施行規則 (Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act), 昭和二十二年厚生省令第二十三号
- English title "Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: MinisterialOrdinance — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-3369-4`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3369-4
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3369-4
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## 附　則 昭和三六年三月八日労働省令第四号
<sup>suppl-3369-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3369-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3369-4</sup>

### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3369-4/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3369-4/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3369-4/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この省令は、昭和三十七年四月一日から施行する。ただし、第百二十四条の四の改正規定及び附則第七条（労働安全衛生規則第四十五条第一項第十三号に係る部分に限る。）の規定は、昭和三十六年十月一日から、第二百二十七条から第二百六十条まで及び附則第六条の規定は、昭和三十六年六月一日から、附則第七条（労働安全衛生規則第四十五条第一項第十三号に係る部分以外の部分に限る。）及び附則第八条の規定は、昭和三十六年四月一日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-3369-4/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/suppl-3369-4/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/suppl-3369-4/art-1/par-1</sup>
This Ministerial Order comes into effect as of April 1, 1962; provided, however, that the amended provisions of Article 124-4 and the provisions of Article 7 of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to the part pertaining to Article 45, paragraph (1), item (xiii) of the Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health) come into effect as of October 1, 1961, the provisions of Articles 227 through 260 and Article 6 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of June 1, 1961, and the provisions of Article 7 of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to the part other than the part pertaining to Article 45, paragraph (1), item (xiii) of the Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health) and Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of April 1, 1961.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働基準法施行規則 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322M40000100023/20260401_508M60000100057), retrieved 2026-09-10
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labor Standards Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2605/tb), retrieved 2026-09-10
- claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance-010, translated 2026-09-11
- This site's parser, version 222 — 労働基準法施行規則 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-10
